Home Entertainment System: TV, Video, Audio, Hi-fi, Digital Cameras Motile Connection guide

Yes, you too can be the proud owner of a home-entertainment system and it doesn’t have to cost you a small fortune. If you have ever wondered how your mates get to have sound booming from seemingly every corner of the house when merely watching TV, we have the answer (naturally!). All you need to do is connect your TV to your video machine to your Hi-fi (these don’t have to be top of the range) after having acquired a couple of cables to make all the connecting possible.

You WILL NEED

(This will vary depending on what it is that you are connecting to what.)

• Antenna cable (Antenna to TV)
• Auxiliary cord (TV to video machine)
• RCA lead (Video to Hi-fi)

Connecting TV to Video

The general idea is to connect your TV to your video machine to your Hi-fi. First connect the TV antenna cable to the video machine and then connect the video machine to the TV. The reason for this is that the video machine has a stronger receiver than the TV; yes, we know this defies all logic but that is just the way it is. The hole for the antenna in the video machine is labelled as such, Antenna in. Now take the black auxiliary cord and stick the one end in the video machine’s RF out and the other end in the corresponding hole in the TV. If you get confused, think of the game you played in pre-school where all the other kids tried to jam the square form into the round hole but you got it right every time. If it doesn’t slip in easily, it’s the wrong opening. Known as male and female connections, the male slips into the female and the female slips over the male. You do not need to know which is which, simply that the male will struggle to slip into the other male.

Connecting Video to Hi-fi

Here’s the trickiest bit — you need an extra cable, known as an RCA lead. You will use this to connect the video machine to the Hi-fi. One end goes into the Audio Out of the video machine and the other into Video Aux in of the Hi-fi. Easy!

But wait, there’s more. You may have a scart plug in the back of your video machine. You should use this instead of the RCA plug if at all possible as it transmits more information. It looks a bit like the ports in the back of a computer box — rectangular with two rows of little holes. It is marked Audio/Video. There are adapters available with a scart plug on one end and an RCA on the other.

A few things to keep in mind

Depending on how old your various pieces of equipment are, the way in which you connect them may vary slightly, but the principles stay the same. Always remember the flow when you wonder what goes in or what goes out. Your original source is the TV, therefore — out of the TV in-to the video, out of the video in-to the Hi-fi. You may also be able to connect the TV directly to the Hi-fi — just check all the holes, plugs and bits as described above.

Whatever your original signal, it will be amplified once it gets to its end destination. In other words, if you have a weak signal, or the sound is in some way distorted it will sound a thousand times worse once you have it blaring from your surround-sound speakers. And whatever happens, remember never to look into the sun on a very bright day.

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